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Problem description: Bodhi has no tree, and the mirror is not a platform. There was nothing in the first place, and there was nothing like dust! + The rock is square and thick, and can last for a thousand years; Pu Wei sewed for a while, and then it was a day. Qing won the day and was noble, and I went to Huangquan alone! "

Analysis: The rock is square and thick, and can last for thousands of years, which means that the huge stone can still retain its original texture and scale after a thousand years.

Qing was victorious that day, and I went to Huangquan alone, which means that you are still drunk and dreaming of death in the gentle township, and I have already transcended the mortal world and passed away in bliss.

The first four sentences are a verse that has no obvious practical significance, but its purpose is to make the practitioner's mind unhindered, so that he can see clearly and become a Buddha on the ground.

What Shenxiu said is: the body is a Bodhi tree, the heart is like a mirror, always wipe diligently, do not make the dust, this is the method of Zen Buddhism to gradually enlighten. It is normal to say that people have troubles, as long as they do not change their minds.

And the theory of nothingness put forward by Hui Neng is that Zen Buddhism can also enter the Tao from epiphany. As long as you have a good understanding, you can understand that all problems can actually be not problems. This is the so-called"There was nothing"Also.

Translation: There was a butcher who was walking down the road in the evening and was being chased by a wolf. There was a temporary house left by a peasant on the side of the road, so he ran in and hid inside.

A vicious wolf reached out of the straw curtain of the tomato with a paw. So the butcher hurriedly grabbed the wolf's paw and did not let it go, but there was no way to kill it. There was only a small knife less than an inch long, and he used it to cut the wolf's skin under his claws and blow into it by blowing pigs.

The butcher blew hard for a while, and felt that the wolf did not move much, so he tied the wolf's legs with a rope. When I went out to look, I saw that the wolf was swollen like a cow. The four legs are straight and cannot be bent, and the mouth cannot be closed open.

The butcher carried it back.

If not) a butcher, who has the solution? All three stories are about the butcher; It can be seen that the cruelty of the butcher is still available for killing wolves.

Notes: Twilight: Evening.

For: been. Legacy: Stay.

Fu: hiding (some people say that it is an ambush, hiding is more in line with the situation at the time.) Go: Leave.

Ying: Full, full.

Not profitable: dissatisfied, insufficient.

Negative: Back. Row room: refers to the grass hut built by farmers in the field.

苫 (shàn): A mat woven from straw.

Go: Leave. 豕 (shǐ): pig.

Fang: Just. Then: Yes.

Strand: Thigh. U: **, what.

Mencius said: If you say your lord, you will despise it.

Say (shui): to ......Introduction.

Mencius said: "When you speak to a noble person, you should despise him, and Mencius said: "If you say to your lord, you should despise him, and do not look at his majesty." The height of the hall is counted, the title is a few feet, I have the will, and the Buddha is also.

The abbot before eating, hundreds of concubines, I have the will, and the Buddha is also. Drinking music, driving the field to hunt, after the car thousands of rides, I have the will, Fu for also. In the other, I do nothing; In my case, the system of the ancients is also.

Why am I afraid? ”

Mencius said, "Speak to a man of great height, despise him, and do not take his position and power into account." Even if his hall is two or three feet high, and the eaves are several feet wide, if I have the will, I will not disdain these things; Even if he has a table full of delicacies and hundreds of concubines he serves, if I have the will, I don't care about them; Even if he drank and had fun, and galloped and hunted, and had hundreds of chariots with him, if I had the will, I would not have disdained it. What he has is something I disdain; What I hope for is an ancient system of ritual music. Why should I be afraid of him? ”

I haven't caught any rats, but I'm not short of food.

Isn't this owner a bastard who also drove away the black cat and left the white cat behind? The white cat can't catch all the mice in the warehouse, and the food keeps being lost, which means that it is derelict in its duty. Moreover, the owner doesn't want to think about it, the food is not lost, all because the cat is there, and once the cat drives away, won't it be lost again?

This is different from the historical allusion of "rabbits and dead dogs, and birds are hidden".

A man had two cats, each guarding a granary, and was rewarded for catching mice. In the beginning, the black cat hunted and killed the mouse when it saw it, and was constantly rewarded; The white cat hunts the big mouse and releases the small mouse, and there is also a reward. After a long time, there are no more mice in the granary guarded by the black cat, so there is nothing to catch.

So he was kicked out of the house by his master.

When the white cat heard this, he was secretly happy: our cats take catching mice as their main business, and if we catch all the mice, won't we lose our profession?

To describe it as an idiom, it should be "the rabbit dies and the dog cooks, and the bird hides the bow". If we use modern thinking to explain, we should be forward-looking when looking at problems and have a sense of adversity.